After the heady years of the 'Neapolitan Renaissance' in the 1990s, this most stunning of Mediterranean-shore cities is working hard to consolidate its new-found self-confidence. In the TIME OUT GUIDE TO NAPLES local writers lead you around the city's famous monuments and hidden places. And take you outside the city, where more established holiday destinations continue to bask in the charm which has been attracting visitors for centuries: Capri and its famed piazzetta, Ischia with its hot springs, and the Amalfi Coast with its colourful villages dotted precipitously along stomach-curdling roads. All against the dramatic background of an azure sea and a gently smoking volcano.